Linux-Misc Digest #221, Volume #24 Fri, 21 Apr 00 06:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Tape backup and recovery suggestions (Koos Pol)
Re: Linux Problem (Lew Pitcher)
Re: installing w/o CD (Lew Pitcher)
IE Bookmarks into Netscape (Jon McLin)
Re: redhat graphic login (Milton Brizan)
modem stalls? (Milton Brizan)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Karel Jansens)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Karel Jansens)
Help with Yamaha YMF 744 ("Thys de Wet")
Help - How do you pronounce GNU? (Tandem Guy)
Re: Help - How do you pronounce GNU? (Joseph Dale)
Inappropriate ioctl / Printing problem (Marco Cavadini)
getting online with prodigy under linux .... (Maredia)
Re: Help - How do you pronounce GNU? (Tandem Guy)
Arbitary precision libraries. (2:1)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Koos Pol)
Subject: Re: Tape backup and recovery suggestions
Date: 21 Apr 2000 06:08:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 12:27:17 GMT, Mike Trettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
| I have a Slackware 7.0 setup residing upon a Maxtor 15G EIDE drive
| which has a bad partition table. I would like to backup my setup
| to my Seagate TR-4 tape drive, wipe the partition table, and restore from
| tape.
Is it an option to fix the partition table? With fdisk (expert mode) you
should be able to repair the partition table without actually messing with
the actual partitions. Once you know how partition tables work it isn't all
that complicated. You could even use Norton Disk Editor to write a fresh
partition table! (That may even be easier)
Koos Pol
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S.C. Pol - Systems Administrator - Compuware Europe B.V. - Amsterdam
T:+31 20 3116122 F:+31 20 3116200 E:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check my email address when you hit "Reply".
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Problem
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 06:30:17 GMT
Lim Kian Tee wrote:
>
> My problem started like this: -
> 1. I used partition magic in win98 to establish an extended dos partion
> of about 6.4 gigabyte and then two logical partitions of 5.4gigabyte and
> 1.0 gigabyte. I have drives C, D, and E and my CDROM is drive F.
>
> 2. I used drive E: for data storage, drive C for win98 and as for drive
> D, I installed Linux Redhat 6.0.
>
> 3. After successfully installing Redhat, I find that the image in my
> Linux screen is too big for Linux to be of any use. I cannot see what's
> on the desktop and I cannot scroll.
This problem is easily solvable with some editing of the
/etc/XF86Config file. A temporary solution that usually works
(assuming RedHat set things up properly) is to press the <ctrl> <alt>
and <numeric-keypad-plus> keys all at once. This should cycle you to
the next higher resolution. Keep going until you either get a
resolution that you like or you cycle back to the lowest resolution.
To back up through the resolutions, press <ctrl> <alt> and
<numeric-keypad-minus>.
> 4. I have two choices: a) to remove Linux and reclaim drive D for win98,
> b) solve the Linux display problem.
Right.
> 5. I decided on option 'a', ie to remove Linux because I am a newbie to
> Linux and I figured it is beyond me to hack away my Linux problem.
With our help, it becomes a lot easier ;-)
> 6. I restarted my system and Lilo boot into win98. I noticed that my
> drive E has become drive D and the previous drive D has disappeared.
> Thinking that partition magic will be able to 'see' the previous drive D
> and hence I could remove the Linux, I proceeded to start partition
> magic.
You installed Linux on the partition that was MSWindows drive D:.
However, the install changed the partition type (this _is_ correct and
necessary), so MSWindows no longer recognizes that partition as one of
its own. MSWindows ignores the partition, and so assigns it's
previously used drive letter (D:) to the next MSWindows partition on
the drive. Thus your D: dissappeared and your E: changed to D:. If
you truely want to get rid of Linux, use the Linux fdisk command to
change the partition type back to MSDOS (MSWindows). When you start
MSWindows next, MSWindows will recognize the partition and assign it
it's previous drive letter. If you select the partition from "My
Computer", then MSWindows will recognize that it is not MSDOS
formatted, and ask if you want it formatted for MSWindows use. You
choose what you want to do from that point onward.
> 7. To my horror, I got an 'error 114' message and partion magic failed
> to start up.
Sorry, but I cant help here. I don't use Partition Magic
> 8. I then used my win98 start up disk to boot up and tried to start
> win98 fdisk.exe but the system hanged.
Sorry, but something beyond my immediate abilities has fouled up.
> Please advice me on what I should do next.
Call Microsoft Technical Support? The Microsoft website has (incorrect
and incomplete) instructions on how to remove Linux from your
MSWindows system.
> Kian Tee
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: installing w/o CD
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 06:30:22 GMT
Master Penguin wrote:
>
> How do I install linux w/o internal cdrom? The machine has an external
> cdrom that attaches through the par. port and which works fine with
> MS-Win, but none of the distros I tried can be installed. They all load
> the install prog from cd just fine, but once the install prog (linux)
> runs, it does not see the cdrom. I tried Mandrake and Suse. Any way to
> install via a network (high speed access is available)?
Slackware 7.0 has a parallel port IDE bootdisk, that probably would
let you access your parallel port CDROM drive. If not, then Slackware
_still_ can be loaded in it's entirety from floppy disk (a chore to be
sure, but it works).
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 06:46:34 +0000
From: Jon McLin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: IE Bookmarks into Netscape
In order to bring URLs over to Linux from Internet Exploder, I created the
following bash script. It parses an MS "Favorites" folder into a bookmarks file
compatible with Netscape.
This has only been tested on my configuration
(Win95, IE3.0, Netscape Communicator 4.61)
(also bash 2.03.5 on Mandrake 6.0, but it better not matter!)
Help yourself, and no guarantees!
(Note to newbies: the "#!/bin/bash" line must be the FIRST line in the
resulting file. Save it as IE_2_NS.sh. Make it executable with "chmod +x
IE_2_NS.sh")
cut here and save what follows:
=============== 8<
==================================================================
#!/bin/bash
# Usage:
# IE_2_NS.sh [directory] processes <directory>. If <directory> is
# not specified, processes the current directory.
# parse an IE Explorer "Favorites" folder, converting it to
# an equivalent Netscape Bookmarks file.
#========== HOWTO, of sorts ===============
# Jon McLin, 2000-04-20
# Use or abuse - this is UNSUPPORTED software!
# Redirect the output into a file.
# Then within netscape, select "Edit Bookmarks...", then
# "Import..."
# Select the bookmark file you just created.
# Example:
# Mount your windows filesystem. Mine is on hda1
# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win95/c
# Change to the IE "Favorites" directory:
# cd /mnt/win95/c/windows/favorites
# Process the directory using the script installed in your home directory,
# with the results going into ~/MyIEBookmarks
# ~IE_2_NS.sh > ~/MyIEBookMarks
# Open Netscape Navigator, select "Edit Bookmarks...", the "File->Import..."
# Select the file just created:
# ~/MyIEBookMarks
#---------------------- End HOWTO --------------------------------------
#======== The Script ==================
# Specify as "TheTitle" the folder name to appear in Netscape
TheTitle="IE Bookmarks"
# Put a date on the folders. Note this could be modified to use
# times on directories and files, but - do you really care?
now=`date +%s`
# Values for the basic file header. If you decide to make the times
# more dynamic (directory and file mod times) you'll need to compute
# StringB on a per-directory basis, with the "Last..." times coming
# from an examination of the directory contents.
# The implementation is left as an exercise for the reader. ;>
StringA=' <DT><A HREF='
StringB=' ADD_DATE="'$now'" LAST_VISIT="'$now'" LAST_MODIFIED="'$now'"> '
StringC=' </A>'
# A function which will convert the *.url file into an html entry in the
# netscape bookmark file. The file name (less the extension) is used as
# the url NAME, while the contents on the line "URL=" is used as the actual
# URL.
# usage: process_url file indent
# file - name of the *.url file.
# indent - space string for formatting. Yes there are better ways.
# Please demonstrate.
function process_url {
# Save locals
local file
local Name
local indent
file="$1"
indent="$2"
# Base filename?
Name="${file/\.url/}"
URL=`grep 'URL=' "$file"| cut -c5- | tr -d "\r"`
if [ "$Name" != "" -a "URL" != "" ]
then # not null
line="$StringA"\""$URL"\""$StringB""$Name""$StringC"
echo "$indent""$line"
fi
}
# A function which will process an IE "Favorites" folder or subfolder into
# urls and subfolders. Recursive.
# usage:
# process_dir dir indent
# dir - directory to be processed.
# indent - space string for formatting. Yes there are better ways.
# Please demonstrate.
function process_dir {
# Create some locals so we don't override the parent context.
local parent
local indent
local file
local extension
# Push (could use the dir stack, but this may be more portable.)
parent="`pwd`"
cd "$1"
indent="$2"
# Process the files in this directory.
for file in *
do
# Grab the extension
extension="${file##*.}"
if [ -d "$file" ]
then # its a directory
# Indent, output a header, then recurse
echo "$indent"'<DT><H3 ADD_DATE="'$now'">'$file'</H3>'
echo "$indent"'<DL><p>'
# Recurse, with the indent increased.
process_dir "$file" " $2"
echo "$indent"'</DL><p>'
elif [ "$extension" == "url" ]
then # its a file with MS url extension
# Strip this url.
process_url "$file" "$2"
fi
done
# Pop
cd "$parent"
}
# Main.
# Put a header out.
echo '<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>'
echo '<TITLE>'"$TheTitle"'</TITLE>'
echo '<H1>'"$TheTitle"'</H1>'
echo
if [ $# -eq 1 ]
then
# If a directory was on the command line, use it.
dir="$1"
# Process this dir
echo "$indent"'<DT><H3 ADD_DATE="'$now'">'$dir'</H3>'
echo "$indent"'<DL><p>'
# Recurse, with the indent increased.
process_dir "$dir" " $2"
echo "$indent"'</DL><p>'
else
# Else, use the current directory.
dir="`pwd`"
# Process this dir
process_dir "$dir" " "
fi
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From: Milton Brizan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat graphic login
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 08:30:11 GMT
Robie Basak wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:19:39 GMT, The Dude said:
> >hi, how do I remove the graphic login in RedHat 6.1.
> >I wanna get back to the old and good terminal login
>
> Edit /etc/inittab; change the line which has the word
> initdefault from a 5 to a 3.
>
> It's not often I see people asking how to do it this
> way around...
>
>
> Robie.
> --
That is true. Most people are stuck on GUIs. Also, i think you can change
it in linuxconf ... but i'm not sure
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From: Milton Brizan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modem stalls?
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 08:30:12 GMT
Whenever I use a dial-up connection, my modem seems to stall for minutes
at a time before continuing to download a webpage. I've used kppp, wvdial
and rp3 ... they all do the same thing. I've even tried using diffrent
browsers.
I use a compaq presario 233 mmx, 3.9gig 32mb of ram with redhat 6.1 and
kernel 2.2.x. My modem is a zoom 33.4 and it's not a winmodem ... I
checked. Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks
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From: jansens_at_ibm_dot_net (Karel Jansens)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: 21 Apr 2000 10:03:39 GMT
<btolder> wrote:
>
> <jansens_at_ibm_dot_net (Karel Jansens)> wrote in message
> news:L9BY9tzSDwrQ-pn2-tjQ4FOmN8blb@localhost...
> > I'm sorry, but all this brings to mind the image of grapes and a
> > general feeling of sourness.
> >
> > It was first argued - with examples! - that Microsoft had invented so
> > many new stuff that the American government would better leave them
> > alone to do their stuff.
> >
> > So far, _each_and_every_one_ of the examples - given by a Winvocate! -
> > has been debunked, so the argument must now be that Microsoft does not
> > invent as such (because that kind of stuff cannot be done anymore), as
> > well innovate.
> >
> > So suddenly the optical pad-less mouse, the squiggly, on-line spelling
> > checker and whatever else was put forward are no longer great
> > inventions? Merely because it was not Microsoft who invented them?
> >
> > Am I the only one who finds this kind of reasoning strange, to put it
> > mildly?
>
> But yours is an easy game to play, and is pointless to argue. Don't believe
> me? For the third time I'll ask: tell me your favorite invention of the
> 1990's. I'll systematically rip it to shreds based on past work.
>
> Once you've realized there is zero new invention, we can discuss the real
> issue here: what company is the absolute best at refining, commercializing
> and integrating technology? When it comes to software, nobody beats
> Microsoft.
>
First, and for the record, the "challenge" you bestowed upon me has
absolutely nothing to do with the argument at hand. It was not me who
brought up the issue of "Microsoft the Inventer".
But, since you asked, and in no particular order:
1. those little plastic clips you use to close opened bags of crisps;
2. the stapler that doesn't need metal staples, but cunningly folds a
cut-out piece of paper to bind documents together (I've had one on my
desk for the past seven years, you wouldn't believe what joy it is
never having to look for staples again!);
3. buckytubes;
4. the aerobraker of Mars Pathfinder;
5. the "moving desktop": once your mouse hits the edge of the screen
you flip to the next desktop (don't know who invented it, but it's an
option in KDE. Friends swear by it, me usually at it);
6. Pokemon;
7. 3D jigsaw puzzles;
8. OS/2 Warp's WPS;
9. the Garden Claw (I don't know under what name it is sold in the
English-speaking world, but it's a tool with 3 twisted prongs on the
end; you stick it in the ground and turn it to cultivate your soil);
10. Aiki noodles.
Have a nice Easter weekend.
Karel Jansens
jansens_at_attglobal_dot_net
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From: jansens_at_ibm_dot_net (Karel Jansens)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: 21 Apr 2000 10:03:42 GMT
<btolder> wrote:
>
> Roger Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> > There's really no excuse for *any* version of Windows to be unreliable.
> > By the time Windows was designed, stable multi-user, multi-tasking
> > operating systems had been around for decades. If they finally got
> > that part of it right after all this time, all I can say is: "Mazel Tov,
> > and what took you so damned long?"
>
> Reliability is always a trade off with ship date. I'd rather have an OS that
> stays up for 24 hours and runs DirectX than runs for three months without
> it. Everyone has different priorities. Microsoft offers several classes of
> OSs now, ranging from very high reliability to very well tuned for games.
> Your choice. I like choice. I run Win2K at work, and Win98 at home.
>
> > However, I don't expect to be trying Win2K myself any time soon since I am
> > unwilling to purchase the hardware which that resource-hungry OS needs in
> > order to run. (Not to mention having to worry what the OS may be doing
> > behind my back when I'm not looking.)
> >
>
> Good heavens, I have a junky old 166 in my office that I upgraded to 96M of
> RAM and it works great with Win2K (it is the office Unreal Tournament server
> as well as the office web server and doc repository). The upgrade cost was
> $58 for 64M of DRAM. Just tell your wife you are going to spend the money.
> If she says "no", then sneak. It isn't a lot.
>
Your marital (martial?) issues aside, how much was 2k?
Karel Jansens
jansens_at_attglobal_dot_net
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From: "Thys de Wet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with Yamaha YMF 744
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 11:09:37 +0200
Does anybody know how i can get this card to work under redhat 6.2 ??
It detects it and then proceeds to tell me that it is not supported....
HELP
Thanx
Thys
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From: Tandem Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Help - How do you pronounce GNU?
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:24:44 GMT
So, how do you pronounce GNU?
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From: Joseph Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Help - How do you pronounce GNU?
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:40:14 GMT
Tandem Guy wrote:
>
> So, how do you pronounce GNU?
like "nu", but with a "g" or "guh" in front.
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From: Marco Cavadini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Inappropriate ioctl / Printing problem
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 11:44:37 +0200
On a linux diskelss workstation I get this message when I'm running
lsattr on NFS mouted partitions:
Examlpe: lsattr /usr/bin/mc
lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device while reading flags on /usr/lib/mc
Is it normal ??? Just because it is not possible to run lsattr on NFS mounted
partittions ??
On the same file on the server everithing works fine.
I came to this problem while debugging another one.
lpr does not work on the diskless workstations
apparently because it can't set correctly the
cf....file in the spool directory
-rw-rw---- 1 bin lp 0 Apr 21 09:47 cfA096muggio
-rw-rw---- 1 cavadini lp 469 Apr 21 09:47 dfA096muggio
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9443 Apr 21 09:11 filter
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 188 Apr 21 09:11 general.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Apr 21 11:24 lock
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 345 Apr 21 09:11 postscript.cfg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 28 Apr 21 11:24 status
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 146 Apr 21 09:11 textonly.cfg
... cfA09...could be writeen but not completely....(not closed ??)
/var is mounted over NFS as well..ON the server everithing works fine !
Are the two problems related ?? Any idea ??
Marco
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From: Maredia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: getting online with prodigy under linux ....
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:56:29 GMT
does anyone know the DNS for prodigy.net
and is the windows user name and linux user name are the same or different .??
I want to get online with prodigy but can't find the DNS
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From: Tandem Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Help - How do you pronounce GNU?
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:59:08 GMT
Thanks. Also it's nice to know I'm not the only one reading
comp.os.linux.misc in the middle of the night :)
Joseph Dale wrote:
> Tandem Guy wrote:
> >
> > So, how do you pronounce GNU?
>
> like "nu", but with a "g" or "guh" in front.
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From: 2:1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Arbitary precision libraries.
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 11:21:41 +0100
Hi
Does anyone know of any arbitary precision libraries for Linux?
Thanks
-Ed
--
Did you know that the oldest known rock is the famous Hackenthorpe rock,
which
is over three trillion years old?
-The Hackenthorpe Book of Lies
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